The happy waterman

by: More, Hannah,1745-1833; Hazard, Samuel,d. 1806.prt; Marshall, John,printer; White, R.prt

Publication date: 1795

Topics: Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800., Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- Bath -- 18th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Conduct of life, Chapbooks

Publisher: Bath : Sold by S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts ; London : By J. Marshall, printer to the cheap repository, no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheap-side, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard : And R. White, Piccadilly : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

12 p. ; 16 x 9 cm. (12mo)

At head of titlepage: Cheap Repository

'Great allowance to shopkeepers and hawkers'

'Price an 1/2d. or 2s. 3d. per 100. 50 for 1s. 3d. 25 for 9d.'

Anonymous. By Hannah More

'[Entered at Stationers Hall]' at foot of titlepage is in italics and enclosed within square brackets [ ]

Woodcut on title page has been cut down to fit the page

Adertisement on verso of t.p., headed: On the 1st of September will be published

First sentence: "A gentleman and lady walking on the banks of the river Thames, spied a small ferry-boat with a neatly dressed waterman rowing towards them; on this nearer approach, they read on the stern of his boat, these words, The Happy Waterman."

Includes 1 woodcut

Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts. (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3 (Dec. 1939): 295-340)

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Callnumber: RBD MAIN PN970 C52 no.31 Rare Books/Special Collections - McLennan Bldg, 4th floor

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_C52_no_31-1726

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t0zp6kz1q

Note: At head of titlepage: Cheap Repository.
'Great allowance to shopkeepers and hawkers'.
'Price an 1/2d. or 2s. 3d. per 100. 50 for 1s. 3d. 25 for 9d.'.
Anonymous. By Hannah More.
'[Entered at Stationers Hall]' at foot of titlepage is in italics and enclosed within square brackets [ ].
Woodcut on title page has been cut down to fit the page.
Adertisement on verso of t.p., headed: On the 1st of September will be published.
First sentence: "A gentleman and lady walking on the banks of the river Thames, spied a small ferry-boat with a neatly dressed waterman rowing towards them; on this nearer approach, they read on the stern of his boat, these words, The Happy Waterman."
Includes 1 woodcut.
Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts. (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3 (Dec. 1939): 295-340), 31
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